Premier League 2023/24

[Colly]

Just downloaded my season ticket. Would not recommend, expecting carnage first home game. Glad I'm on holiday for it.

[Lineker]

 

[stokeriño]

Chelsea vs. Fulham on Sky Sports Main Event, KO in about 30 minutes.

I'm just reveling in the novelty of this one pre-season game that's actually on at a reasonable hour.

[Dang117]

Clip going around off Onana losing it at Maguire in the match against Dortmund because of a mistake. I already feel like this is the kind of keeper we've needed, De Gea was mostly good but he wasn't very vocal

[Hobo]

 

 

 

 

[Tigerstyle]

2 hours ago, Hobo said:

 

 

 

 

Makes the most sense, Trent is a natural to be Liverpools long term captain.

[Baddar]

 

 

[Bobfoc]

BBC1 will presumably be able to start showing Final Score a full ten minutes later now.

[Baddar]

Wasn't the 30min half trial happening at some point this year in a FIFA tournament of some kind? Can see things moving that way in a few years.

[Colly]

Christ, we're going to have to start chucking a few quid more in the parking meter.

[stokeriño]

If I were still a season ticket holder, this would make getting back out of London after evening kickoffs just the worst.

[METALMAN]

Imagine how many more goals Man City will be able to score against your favourite team now.

[gunnar hendershow]

The 30 minute clock makes so much sense that it'll take forever to get implemented and they'll definitely find a way to implement it poorly.

[Gazz]

Seems like a lot of mucking about for 5-8 minutes of extra actual on-field play and you just know it will see games lasting 2 hours plus when teams shithouse the clock to break the flow of the game.

Never mind if it gets implemented in grassroots, where a good 40 to 70 minutes of a 90 minute game is fetching the ball out the overgrown bushes behind the goals.

[METALMAN]

 

I’ve been to basketball and ice hockey games in the US and Canada where stopping the clock after a foul or when the ball goes out of play creates a lack of impetus to get the game started in a timely fashion and leads to tedious bullshit like kiss-cam and karaoke competitions and - inevitably - endless advertising. Last one I went to was in Toronto and it was much more like a SUV expo with an ice hockey game attached.

Seeing this sort of thing is up there with the dullest experiences of my life and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the same ushered into football alongside a 30 minute clock with the way the Premier League is going (or has already gone).

[Colly]

Our new ticket system is so shit the FSA have got involved. Easy to forget in all the Saudi talk that we're also co-owned by a Tory donor.

 

 

[Szumi]

4 hours ago, METALMAN said:

 

I’ve been to basketball and ice hockey games in the US and Canada where stopping the clock after a foul or when the ball goes out of play creates a lack of impetus to get the game started in a timely fashion and leads to tedious bullshit like kiss-cam and karaoke competitions and - inevitably - endless advertising. Last one I went to was in Toronto and it was much more like a SUV expo with an ice hockey game attached.

Seeing this sort of thing is up there with the dullest experiences of my life and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the same ushered into football alongside a 30 minute clock with the way the Premier League is going (or has already gone).

That's all stuff that happens because of the game having built in ad breaks. As long as football doesn't go stupid and add ad breaks, that stuff doesn't happen. And I can't see that happening because players would be furious at having random several minute breaks and their muscles cooling. 

[METALMAN]

Given that the main reason for the Premier League’s existence - aside from legitimising Gulf monarchies -  is to provide advertising space for offshore betting firms I think they’d only be too happy for the extra opportunity to do so.

[Lineker]

Sounds like Gabriel Jesus is going to miss the opening first few weeks at least of Arsenal's start to the season with another knee injury.

[Kaney]

4 hours ago, Lineker said:

Sounds like Gabriel Jesus is going to miss the opening first few weeks at least of Arsenal's start to the season with another knee injury.

jesus christ